Primary Health Care and Primary Health Care and
Service Integration: Service Integration:
Improving Healthcare in Mount Improving Healthcare in Mount
WaddingtonWaddington
Victoria PowerVictoria Power
Director, Primary Health Care, Director, Primary Health Care,
Chronic Disease Management & Chronic Disease Management &
Rural Health ServicesRural Health Services
September 22, 2010September 22, 2010
What You Requested to HearWhat You Requested to Hear
What is primary health care and how does it differ from
traditional health care?
There are 5 facilities in Mt. Waddington.
What
changes will we see at the sites related to primary
health care?
Please review the Mt. Waddington redesign structure
to explain how the principles of primary health care are
rolling out at each facility.
Please explain how this affects the way doctors and
staff do their jobs and provide care.
Mount Waddington Mount Waddington
Redesign for IntegrationRedesign for Integration
Changing the way we
plan and provide
services:
“Identify the best
supports to ensure
success and
sustainability of this
work”
The Focus is on Two Goals:The Focus is on Two Goals:
1. Improve the health of Mount
Waddington people and communities
2. Demonstrate an integrated
management solution for
rural and remote
communities
Mount Waddington Vision: A Primary Mount Waddington Vision: A Primary
Health Care ApproachHealth Care Approach
“Comprehensive, seamless and locally
accessible primary health care services delivered
by a network of provider teams, integrated into a
regional health care system that supports our
population to stay healthy, get better, manage
illness and disease, and cope with the end of
life.”
Mt. Waddington Health Service Plan 2007
What is Primary Health Care?What is Primary Health Care?
VIHA Working Definition
Primary health care is the range of services and
supports that individuals and communities receive
on an ongoing basis in order to stay healthy, get
better, manage illness and disease and cope with
end of life.
VIHA Primary Health Care Strategy June 2006
An approach to health services An approach to health services
delivery across the systemdelivery across the system
Key Attributes of Approach:
a.First point of contact to access care
b.Comprehensiveness of care
c.Coordination of care
d.Continuity of care
Traditional Care vs Primary Health CareTraditional Care vs Primary Health Care
Episodic / urgent in nature
Services typically delivered
in silos
Treating illness one person
(and one illness) at a time
Referral to other
providers…your story over
& over
Sometimes long waits
Coordinated, proactive
service
Care delivered through
integrated approach
Patients, families & care
givers as partners
Focus on self-management
Population health approach
New Service Delivery FrameworkNew Service Delivery Framework
Service Delivery Framework – Regionally Integrated Services
Senior Manager
MW Health Service
Chief of Staff
MW Health Services
Manager, Acute /
Primary / Public
Health
Manager Mental
Health/ Home &
Community Care /
Residential Care
Aboriginal
Health
Mount Waddington Service Integration Team
Mount Waddington Health
Network
Local Medical Advisory
Committee
North Island Division of
Family Practice
Collaborative Services
Committee
‘Namgis Health
Services (FN)
Mt Waddington’s
Regional Services
Port Hardy Cluster
of Integrated
Services
Port McNeill
Cluster of
Integrated
Services
Port Alice Primary
Health Centre
Sointula Nursing Centre
Holberg
Fort Rupert
Gwa’sala-nakwaxda’xw
Quatsino
Kingcome (outreach)
Woss
Integrating VIHA Services in Mount Waddington…Integrating VIHA Services in Mount Waddington…
Guilford (outreach)
Hopetown
Cormorant Island
Service Cluster
An approach to health services An approach to health services
delivery across the systemdelivery across the system
Key Attributes of Approach:
a.First point of contact to access care
b.Comprehensiveness of care
c.Coordination of care
d.Continuity of care
First Point of ContactFirst Point of Contact
Same Day Appointments
Group Visits
Nurse Practitioners
Fly-in teams
Telehealth
Expanding Scope of Practice
Comprehensiveness of CareComprehensiveness of Care
Integrated Care Teams & Community
Partnerships
Chronic Disease Management supports
Mental Health Supports
Divisions of Family Practice &
Collaborative Services Committees
VIHA Rural Health Framework
Divisions of Family PracticeDivisions of Family Practice
Groups of physicians
organized at a
community level:
Working together to
address common health
care goals for their
communities
Influencing population
health
What Divisions Offer …What Divisions Offer …
Networking support for communities of
physicians.
Avenue for health system decision-makers to
effectively engage community GPs.
Opportunities for enhanced clinical services,
developed and supported in collaboration with
partners.
Coordination of CareCoordination of Care
Community Health Integration Initiative
A single patient care plan that can be
accessed across the health care system
and created in partnerships with patients
Shared care between patient, NP-GP and
specialists
Improved communication during care
transitions
Patient as PartnersPatient as Partners
A collaborative relationship between
patients (and their families and
caregivers) and health care professionals
so that patients can achieve better health
Patients have a better experience at a
reasonable cost
Supporting patients to have greater
confidence in managing their own care
Patient as Partners Goals:Patient as Partners Goals:
Voice
Choice
Representation
www.patientvoices.ca
Continuity of CareContinuity of Care
Attachment of every willing British
Columbian to a family practitioner will
reduce the number of emergency room
visits and hospital admissions.
Maternity, Residential, End-of-Life,
Inpatient care incentives in place
Hollander, M.J., Kaldec, H., Hamdi, R., & Tessaro, T. (2009) Increasing value for money in the Canadian healthcare
system: New findings on the contribution of primary care. Healthcare Quarterly, 12(4), 30-42.
Benefits of AttachmentBenefits of Attachment
For patients
More appropriate
preventative care.
Better access to long-
term and coordinated
care.
For physicians
Strong support through
health care partners
Incorporate inter-
professional care teams.
Understanding of patient
population/needs.
2020 of ? of ?
Attachment Benefits to Attachment Benefits to
SystemSystem
Health system
annual cost for
person living with
diabetes
Unattached:
$10,175
Attached
$4,027
Health system
annual cost for
person living with
heart failure
Unattached:
$16,710
Attached
$7,379
2121 of of
Rural Health Services FrameworkRural Health Services Framework
& Strategy & Strategy
Vision: Healthy people, healthy
rural communities, integrated
service
Next Steps…looking toward the Next Steps…looking toward the
futurefuture